@emjay
You should get to the crux quite soon, it's a thin book.
Plato's views seem pretty radical to us, and probably to his peers in Athens as well . Athens had a kind of proto democracy, which was actually rule by referendum, with about 1/3 of adults being eligible to vote on every important issue. Women and slaves had no vote.
Plato argues that rulers should be brought up and trained as such, just like many other occupations. He uses the analogy of a ship's captain.
You should get to the crux quite soon, it's a thin book.
Plato's views seem pretty radical to us, and probably to his peers in Athens as well . Athens had a kind of proto democracy, which was actually rule by referendum, with about 1/3 of adults being eligible to vote on every important issue. Women and slaves had no vote.
Plato argues that rulers should be brought up and trained as such, just like many other occupations. He uses the analogy of a ship's captain.
